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Simulating Students or Sycophantic Problem Solving? On Misconception Faithfulness of LLM Simulators

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Main Authors:	Do, Heejin, Sonkar, Shashank, Sachan, Mrinmaya
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Machine Learning
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